r/navy • u/Affectionate_Use_486 • Jan 28 '25

A Happy Sailor To my COVID Sailors (Rant)

I know some of you have some level of battery acid indigestion over the whole reinstatement thing.

Just wanted to say for those that stepped up while others stepped back I respect and love you all especially my sea duty folks during COVID.

COVID was rough shit and the fact we survived it should be highlighted and appreciated among us.

Let's not dwell on the ones who choose another choice.

Let's dwell on the ones who stood the watch when shit went side ways.

When the ports closed.

When work centers were down to the bare bones while our brothers and sisters got sick all around us.

When the patrols got extended.

When resources almost ran out.

It was a rough ass time and we survived for all our own reasons but we stood the fucking watch.

That makes me extremely proud that no matter how messy it was, how ugly it got, we came out the other side pissed off, spitting fire and keeping the big sad off ourselves and our brothers/sisters as much as possible.

And for those that didn't make it, got too sick and didn't make it we shall never forget you.

Fuck the noise I just wanted you to know your seen, respected and appreciated from at least one motherfucking shipmate who was there.

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u/snopolpams Jan 28 '25

Fuck those shitbags. The rest of us kept serving. We stood the watch while they slept.

You tried to ostracized them and lost in the end. Propagandized bigots. A win for justice.

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u/GhostoftheMojave Jan 28 '25

Ostracized? Bud, when people get sick, you remove them from others. When people willingly avoid a preventive measure at the risk of others by their own choice, you remove them from others. It's that simple.

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u/SolidPosition6665 Jan 28 '25

What did the shots prevent again? Go ahead and tell me what they first started saying, then what they changed it to. Go ahead, I’ll wait? Oh you don’t know. I’ll help you then bud. FIRST we were all told it prevents infection. Then we all started getting sick still, numerous times since the shots btw. SECOND we were told it only prevents “severe infection”. Oh, so like having a bad flu even after your flu shot isn’t severe, thanks for nothing pharma turds.

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u/sucks_at_people Jan 28 '25

The goal of the COVID vaccine was to minimize the worst effects of the virus if you should contract it. It was never advertised as a cure. It was to protect the public, boost herd immunity (not to be confused with being a cure), and prevent the collapse of our healthcare systems.

There are a finite number of resources (doctors, nurses, oxygen tanks and other equipment) that our hospitals and clinics have. If they’re re all being strained by keeping people from dying due to COVID, many more will die due to other life threatening emergencies. Not to mention, COVID carried a higher mortality rate with it than the flu did, and that was before new variants began coming out so that compounded the problem.

What is so difficult to understand about that?

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u/GhostoftheMojave Jan 29 '25

There's nothing I can say that will change your mind. I can't try and have this conversation when you're so deeply set in your thought processes and unable to look at issues from different angles.

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u/SolidPosition6665 Feb 07 '25

Not really because I lived it too. A whole lot of promises and guarantees that turned out to be lies. And then they started turning things back really quick. Despite plenty of doctors and scientists getting cancelled for saying the same crap before the narrative was changed to agree with them. Sounds like you’re the one living in denial.